__/ [John Bailo] on Friday 02 September 2005 18:50 \__
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> Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1854234,00.asp
>
> August 30, 2005
> Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser
> By Mel Reyes
>
> This is an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Firefox: More Than
> 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations. This chapter shows you how to speed
> up page rendering, tune Firefox to your CPU, optimize memory and
> caching, and more.
>
> Hack it, tweak it, and make it scream down the information highway. This
> chapter covers several of the much-touted hacks that you will find on
> the Internet, as well as some other less popular but very useful hacks.
> You will get the skinny on the what, how, and why of them. More
> important, you'll see how to customize them to fit your current setup
> and situation. The primary method of hacking for this section is
> adjusting key hidden preferences.
This one is from last year:
http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
All it involves is pipelining requests, which has worked magic for almost a
year. I sit on a 100MBit connection so I really give little or no damn how
much traffic is travelling underneath. All I know is that I am not
interested in Firefox out-of-the-box settings, which accommodate an average
Internet user with ADSL.
Roy
PS - More while on the issue:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/04/05/firefox-pop-ups-block/
[Stopping 'new-styled' pop-ups]
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock
[CSS ad blocking]
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Roy S. Schestowitz | Useless fact: Brazil spans 47.8% of S. America
http://Schestowitz.com | SuSE Linux | PGP-Key: 74572E8E
9:15am up 9 days 21:26, 3 users, load average: 0.29, 0.23, 0.20
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